Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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>>On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:19:27PM -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
>>>>Wow, I was using those cards back in the early 90's with coax 10BT. I
>>have a few laying around if anyone wants 'em. I was just about to toss
>>them out along with a bunch of old Adaptec and Buslogic VLB and ISA
>>narrow SCSI cards from the same era. My wife has become a lot less
>>tolerant of my packrat ways with computer gear. 8-)
>>>>>>I would love to get my hands on some 3c509 cards. Unfortunately, sending
>them to me (Brazil) would cost more than getting some 3c905 boards here.
>>Those cards are great to connect old K6/Pentium machines (firewalls)
>to ADSL modems.
>>
At one point, I had about 50 of them. When Netgear came out with cheap
PCI 10/100 cards based on the DEC tulip chip, and Buslogic came out with
the 946 PCI cards, we summarily punted all our remaining ISA/VLB cards
and never looked back.
Next time I go to Brasil, I'll have to bring them along. 8-)
Cheers,